Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flakes of torn skin curl back from the wound like pith on an orange . |
| 2 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 3 | In particular , Bentalls , the big departmental store in Kingston gave its prestigious Wolsey Hall over to a large exhibition lasting a fortnight , covering a great range of subjects including Medau . |
| 4 | For years Caleb conducted his failed building business entirely for the benefit of his assignees , |
| 5 | Lyndon-James says design is well advanced on a 4-megabit chip — the size of the largest DRAM chip currently on the market — and there are plans for 16-megabit chip . |
| 6 | Nominated for two BAFTA Awards , WIDOWS was a critical and popular success turning assumptions about professional crime upside down from a woman 's point of view ( the widows ) . |
| 7 | This old Methodist Church hall is an impressive building with a red and mellow brick facade standing in this pleasant side road close to the heart of Oxford and within easy walking distance of the city centre University and Polytechnic . |
| 8 | The Hotel Seinduin is positioned in a pleasant side street directly behind the seafront and near to the main boulevard of Scheveningen . |
| 9 | The letter does not have a line of symmetry and if we make the right side look exactly like the left , we get a circle with lines on it . |
| 10 | Another variation on repetitious dieting involves having a liquid protein drink instead of a meal . |
| 11 | They came to a kitchen with a spacious drawing room beyond at the front of the house . |
| 12 | I have visited schools where informal methods are practised and in which each teacher has to submit a ‘ projected ’ programme for the coming week to the headteacher on each Friday morning together with an analysis of how closely the current week followed the original forecast . |
| 13 | There is a shop full of wines and souvenirs , and a pleasant picnic spot together with the site of the ‘ Piltdown Man ’ find . |
| 14 | The Scots fear discrimination most in the livestock sector where lower limits on qualifying numbers for production subsidies would be particularly painful . |
| 15 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 16 | Duclos rattled the empty champagne bottle impatiently against the table-top as he picked them up . |
| 17 | There is no cover under this section of the policy if a claim is also made under item 1 of the section which makes payments for delays for every 12 hour period up to the maximum in the policy . |
| 18 | It was intended to cover two-thirds of the East German budget deficit up to the end of 1994 . |
| 19 | And there were some birds swimming-floating down towards the camera , they were brown . |
| 20 | The directors also propose to offer shareholders an enhanced scrip dividend together with a cash offer from BZW as an alternative to the final cash dividend . |
| 21 | The Tequila Slammer , which you probably wo n't find in the Cocktail Recipe books , was almost certainly invented by some loony Hooray in a flash cocktail bar somewhere as a means of using up cheap tequila . |
| 22 | Coventry is the home of several major attractions including the world famous Museum of British Road Transport located only a few minutes drive away near the city centre . |
| 23 | Peregrine 's attention was captured by this manoeuvre and he swivelled in the chair to watch another skier zig-zagging down towards the hut . |
| 24 | Despite a rising Unix base , he is facing flat membership of 6,500 souls and 69 corporate sponsors and a clear lack of enthusiasm for the old user group even among the diehards . |
| 25 | Four Louis XVI wall-lights valued at £3,000 are being sold from the French-style drawing room along with the £5,000 giltwood suite and 1850 card tables . |
| 26 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 27 | Cos we used to have like this minibus service back from the Guild |
| 28 | He flung the damp tea towel on to the table . |
| 29 | Application for admission to the first year of these courses should be made on the University 's direct entry form directly to the University of Ulster . |
| 30 | The Ministry of Information said on March 12 that fisheries patrol boats had been instructed to fire on foreign vessels fishing illegally inside the country 's 200-mile exclusive economic zone . |